The Guided Construction of Knowledge Talk Amongst Teachers and Learners (Multilingual Matters) by NeilProfessorMercer Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1998 by Multilingual Matters ISBN-13: 978-1-85359-262-1, ISBN: 1-85359-262-5
"This book is about how people help other people to learn. Human life depends on knowledge being jointly created and shared: we rely on others for developing our understanding and for acquiring practical and intellectual skills. Yet most research on learning and thinking has focused on individuals. In The Guided Construction of Knowledge the author uses examples of talk recorded in classrooms and other places to show how teachers and lea ..."
"English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world. It looks at the place of English within formal education, and at some of the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of English."
Interthinking Putting talk to work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67552-9, ISBN: 0-415-67552-9
Interthinking(1st Edition) Putting talk to work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67553-6, ISBN: 0-415-67553-7
"Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world. English is learned in most parts of the world, both through use in the home and community, and as a major language of education. Learning English repr ..."
"This reader provides an accessible collection of readings which illustrate both the current variation in research on language and literacy and the common underlying themes. It is made up of twenty chapters, of which eight have been specially commissioned. Together they illustrate some of the ways in which researchers are grappling with key questions about language, literacy and education. The reader is organized around four key themes: ..."
"Tang, K. S., & Putra, G. B. S. (2018). Infusing literacy into an inquiry instructional
model to support students' construction of scientific explanations. In K. S. Tang &
K. Danielsson (Eds.), Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science ..."
Interthinking Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-67530-0, ISBN: 1-136-67530-2
"One ofour former doctoral students, Alison Twiner, has called the kind of text the
children are creating on the IWB a 'digital improvable object' (Twiner 2011;Twiner
, Littleton, Coffin & Whitelock in press).Teachers often encourage children to ..."
Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer 194 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-21267-3, ISBN: 1-136-21267-1
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"Commenting on this, Karen Hume wrote: This speaks to the importance of a
round of whole-class and small group activity before attempting to work with
student questions. The common base that we had built [in this way] not only
provided us with a number of shared understandings and a language for
discussing them, but also primed the pump for new questions. ... Certainly, for this
class, in the course of listening to each other call o ..."
"Since the earliest stages of the Thinking Together research in the early 1990s,
we and our colleagues have been using computerbased activities within our
intervention programmes for improving children's interthinking as they work
together in school. This aspect of our research has been discussed in some
detail by our colleagues Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes in their book Thinking
and Learning with ICT(Wegerif and Dawes, 2004). Some ..."
"English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts.The articles - a range of seminal and specially commissioned piece ..."
"English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts.The articles - a range of seminal and specially commissioned piec ..."
Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge The selected works of NeilMercer (World Library of Educationalists) by NeilMercer Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 2019 by Taylor & Francis ISBN-13: 978-0-367-36748-0, ISBN: 0-367-36748-3
Backpacker Book by NeilMercer Paperback, Published by Arrow ISBN-13: 978-1-86330-592-1, ISBN: 1-86330-592-0
Mass-observation, 1937-40 The Range of Research Methods (Working papers in applied social research) by NeilMercer Paperback, 65 Pages, Published by University Of Manchester Faculty Of Economic & Social Studies ISBN-13: 978-0-947556-16-7, ISBN: 0-947556-16-8